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Dura_Ace said:

Andy_JS said:

"SNP's Kate Forbes hopes Scottish Greens will 'embrace' her"

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24282892.snps-kate-forbes-hopes-scottish-greens-will-embrace/

In a chaste manner, entirely conformant with proscriptions of the Old Testament.

Well, as long as the spikenard is kept under control.


While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

@nickeardleybbc

Sounds like John Swinney could stand for SNP leadership… he days giving it careful consideration and will say more in coming days

Wants to speak to family in particular

But warns party must stay in the centre left to be successful

Scott_xP said:

@DeltapollUK
🚨New Voting Intention🚨
Labour lead widens to twenty points in our latest results.
Con 24% (-3)
Lab 44% (+1)
Lib Dem 8% (-1)
Reform 12% (-)
SNP 3% (-)
Green 5% (-)
Other 3% (+2)
Fieldwork: 26th-29th April 2024
Sample: 1,577 GB adults
(Changes from 19th-22nd April 2024)

Stop the boats!!!

@elrick1

Is Ash Regan still the most powerful MSP at Holyrood? Asking for a friend....

Scott_xP said:

@JohnRentoul

Ladbrokes news release: BETTING SUSPENDED on Humza Yousaf replacement after flood of bets on John Swinney

I took some of the 8/1 that was on offer this morning

Well done. The BF market is up now - but all blue no pink for the moment.

Pulpstar said:

Finally gone over to the ubiquitous Smartmeter. Gas all online with 1/2 hour granular detail available. Electricity 4-6 weeks to come online though ?!

What sort of archaic systems are in the back end of our grid for it to take that long ?

Thanks so much for mentioning this. I have been trying to get one for 4 years, last year they said it was now possible in our area but there are never any appointments. On reading your post I just looked and there was an appointment for Thursday (presumably a cancellation).
.

Sandpit said:

CarlottaVance said:

More chaos ahoy. Humza Yousaf does a Sturgeon and announces his intention to resign as FM but not until SNP members (number TBC) have chosen another leader. Stand by for another unedifying dogfight on the cusp of a general election

https://x.com/HTScotPol/status/1784902279084081173

It would be somewhat amusing if the PM calls a general election in the aftermath of the locals this weekend, so the SNP has to write themselves a manifesto with no leader and no money to campaign.

That is a very interesting possibility.

What, exactly, was HY's plan here when he wiped his hairy ringpiece on the Bute House agreement?

I presume the Greens will support the SNP as long as it led by anybody but HY or Sister Kate of the Immaculate Forehead? That would seem to be the logical move. To the limited extent that logic has any purchase over this fiasco.

numbertwelve said:

Cicero said:

Sandpit said:

CarlottaVance said:

More chaos ahoy. Humza Yousaf does a Sturgeon and announces his intention to resign as FM but not until SNP members (number TBC) have chosen another leader. Stand by for another unedifying dogfight on the cusp of a general election

https://x.com/HTScotPol/status/1784902279084081173

It would be somewhat amusing if the PM calls a general election in the aftermath of the locals this weekend, so the SNP has to write themselves a manifesto with no leader and no money to campaign.

That is a very interesting possibility.

Maybe Rishi will call that GE this afternoon, after all!

If he was smart. So, no then...

Casino_Royale said:

I wonder actually if a PM like Tony Blair would be the most effective in stopping the boats.

Gets the issue (and in no way dismisses it or avoids hard truths in the British interest) and would be sufficiently internationalist to actually do the deals to fix it.

I have see two videos of the French police putting the inflatable boats out of use by knifing them. Seems to me to be the way to go. Can we buy the French more knives?

Ultimately we have the confrontation of international laws designed for a different era, plus millions (billions?) who see the Western lifestyle, look around at the shit holes that they live in and fancy a change, cynical people smuggling gangs, and nations that just don't want the problem (both us and France are culpable - the current government, and many if the British public, don't want those crossing the channel from a safe country (France) and the French just want them gone to where they want to go (UK).) How this gets resolved is THE major challenge for Starmer's new government.

@AlanJZycinski
NEW:
@AnasSarwar tells me @ScottishLabour will “see how week plays out” before deciding if motion of no confidence against Govt still goes ahead.

Also scathing of @StephenFlynnSNP: “He encouraged the FM to go on the front foot…he actually shot him in the foot”

@akmaciver

This is the right move by Anas Sarwar. Almost no chance his motion would pass so no sense in being associated with it. Best sit and wait.

Someone has kept the receipts....

"While government must act in good faith, so must our opposition" says Humza Yousaf. That's a little rich given the way in which Sturgeon, Yousaf & others sought to shut down reasoned opposition & good-faith attempts to amend the SNP's self ID reforms.

https://x.com/soniasodha/status/1784903361168388149

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/21/stoking-a-culture-war-no-nicola-sturgeon-this-is-about-balancing-conflicting-rights

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/10/scottish-schools-have-tumbled-from-top-of-the-class-this-is-what-went-wrong

"French movie legend Gerard Depardieu, 75, is placed in custody in Paris over claims he sexually assaulted two female production workers on film sets"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13361425/French-movie-legend-Gerard-Depardieu-75-placed-custody-Paris-claims-sexually-assaulted-two-female-production-workers-film-sets.html

noneoftheabove said:

isam said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

Foxy said:

Mexicanpete said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:

bondegezou said:

LostPassword said:

Alanbrooke said:

TOPPING said:

As all here may be aware, I yield to no one in my left wing, bring 'em all over, that mug is not in my name, sure I may have been at war with and dropping bombs on them but now I am a big fan and support their struggle against the evil oppressor, pro-immigration stance.

But Ireland may inadvertently be giving Rishi the support he needs wrt his immigration/Rwanda policy. Pass a law saying they must go back to the last country they came from, eh? Well I never.

Ireland is in La Francophonie, so Im sure President Macron will do his utmost to help out.

Perhaps I missed it, but I don't think any French government minister was so dim as to claim credit for asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats. None of them said, "you see, our policy to scare asylum seekers to go elsewhere is working," and thereby accept responsibility for it.

Sunak has accepted that his policy dumps asylum seekers on Ireland, that he is essentially in the same position as Belarus, shoving people across the Polish border, and so that puts Ireland in a much stronger position to demand that he does something about it.

If he hadn't been so stupid he would have responded to the Irish claims with a gallic shrug, said that the Rwanda policy was intended to stop the boat crossings, and left British voters to join the dots. But he couldn't help himself.

A key problem with the Rwanda scheme is that it seems unlikely to work, so Sunak and the policy's supporters have fallen on the Irish government's comments like a thirsty man in a desert finding a spring. The value of someone saying "it's working" (even though they are doing so for their own political reasons) is worth more to Sunak than the cost of having to clear up the mess that follows admitting he's shoving people across the Irish border.

I can understand opponents to the Rwanda scheme dismissing the Irish development but this is a real issue between Ireland and UK that will draw France and the EU into it and hopefully see cooperation and more importantly determination across thee countries to stop the boats once and for all and make Rwanda scheme redundant

Of course this would be a political result for Sunak but for me stopping the boats is about saving lives at sea not least because our family have lost several family members at sea and why our youngest son is an active RNLI sea going volunteer

Rwanda is all about political posturing. Wasn't it Cummings who suggested it was a smoke screen to cover up another Johnson scandal?

I doubt very much the scheme will stop the boats. There were far more robust mechanisms that could have been explored, but a political win is a political win. The Irish issue which has become an unexpected by product is a Daily Mail win for Sunak. Will the boats stop? Very unlikely, but if 6 boats a day becomes five, Sunak will consider that a win.

On Friday and Saturday there were 500 recorded small boat arrivals so evidence of a deterrent effect seems rdispute ather absent!

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

I find it extraordinary that anyone would expect to see an immediate reduction in boat crossings when the smugglers will be desperate to send over as many as possible before the consequences of the legislation become obvious not least as this Irish problem develops and flights take off

Here’s Tony Blair saying that a lot of asylum seekers are no more than economic migrants playing the system

https://x.com/wayotworld/status/1784633398973092319?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q

Asylum claim refusals peaked under Blair. For those who want an efficient migration system they should vote for pragmatists like Blair, not those who shout the loudest.

Blair would be considered too right-wing by Labour today, he was even considered too right-wing back in his day, and SKS is clearly to his Left on issues like culture and migration no matter how often he drapes his canister in the Union Flag with his serious PM'y like poker-face.

Dura_Ace said:

Casino_Royale said:

I wonder actually if a PM like Tony Blair would be the most effective in stopping the boats.

Gets the issue (and in no way dismisses it or avoids hard truths in the British interest) and would be sufficiently internationalist to actually do the deals to fix it.

You're probably right. If you haven't got the fortitude for tow backs, which the tories clearly haven't, then the only person who can (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ STOP THE BOATS ♥ is Macron. Could Blair flatter and/or bribe Macron into doing it. Maybe.

The French President would probably agree to discuss it. Then, when an attempt to discuss it was made, accuse Blair of bad manners.

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turbotubbs said:

FF43 said:

GIN1138 said:

rottenborough said:

I see it is Hammer the Disabled Day on Sunak's news grid.

A multi-millionaire (with an even richer wife) hammering the the sick and disabled isn't a good look, is it?

Sunak is very right wing. He believes government is there only to defend the country and ensure the rich keep their wealth. The Conservative Party have previously done a good job of pretending to be on the side of the common man and woman. Sunak's sin is not even to bother to pretend.

I always get the impression that a lot of Tories think that most who claim to be disabled are having us on. No doubt there are a few (always fun to see a case in the Daily Mail of someone claiming to be unable to walk more than a few steps, shown running a local marathon or some such. But it is unlikely to be that many people, and those in genuine need should not suffer because of them.

Support for disabled folk is clearly going to be very specific to the individual.

Not if the current administration stays in power. It's going to be considerably curtailed across the board..

Alba currently have 2 MPs, 1 MSP and 2 councillors. No-one has ever been elected under the Alba label, however. They won nothing in the 2021 Scottish Parliamentary election and nothing in the 2022 local elections, despite both being under PR systems. They've won nothing in any by-elections. Does Salmond care or is this just about extracting revenge on the SNP?

RandallFlagg said:

Biggest problem with Forbes becoming FM is I can't see how she'd be able to form a government. The Greens despise her more than Yousaf, and the men in grey suits have made it abundantly clear they don't want a deal with Alba. I think that ultimately means 1) the Sturgeon wing will do their absolute upmost to stop her 2) if she does win the leadership then they'd have to be an immediate Holyrood election.

She might be able to do a deal with the Tories, perhaps, just to abstain on her becoming FM, and then something to get budgets passed?

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE THIS WHOLE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO SCOTLAND THING GO AWAY.

No one cares ffs.

I care deeply about Scotland.

I'm a Unionist.

Don't be absurd. Literally no one else cares. You and Big G that's it.

What devolved powers do they have. The ability to set rates for public car parks at national monuments. Anything else? It is a mickey mouse government thinking they have powers to do this, that, and the other on the world stage but they have no such power hence are reduced to arguing the toss about trans rights and Gaza.

Like a student government that the grown ups indulge and laugh at.

gettingbetter said:

Pulpstar said:

Finally gone over to the ubiquitous Smartmeter. Gas all online with 1/2 hour granular detail available. Electricity 4-6 weeks to come online though ?!

What sort of archaic systems are in the back end of our grid for it to take that long ?

Thanks so much for mentioning this. I have been trying to get one for 4 years, last year they said it was now possible in our area but there are never any appointments. On reading your post I just looked and there was an appointment for Thursday (presumably a cancellation).
.

Good luck. When mine were installed, they caused a gas leak.

turbotubbs said:

Casino_Royale said:

I wonder actually if a PM like Tony Blair would be the most effective in stopping the boats.

Gets the issue (and in no way dismisses it or avoids hard truths in the British interest) and would be sufficiently internationalist to actually do the deals to fix it.

I have see two videos of the French police putting the inflatable boats out of use by knifing them. Seems to me to be the way to go. Can we buy the French more knives?

Ultimately we have the confrontation of international laws designed for a different era, plus millions (billions?) who see the Western lifestyle, look around at the shit holes that they live in and fancy a change, cynical people smuggling gangs, and nations that just don't want the problem (both us and France are culpable - the current government, and many if the British public, don't want those crossing the channel from a safe country (France) and the French just want them gone to where they want to go (UK).) How this gets resolved is THE major challenge for Starmer's new government.

I think his view is, essentially, that if they've made all the effort to get here they must have a good reason and should be given the benefit of the doubt.

Yvette Cooper's main job will be to do the moirologist act over how awful it all is.

CarlottaVance said:

We now await news of which MSPs might fancy their chances of winning the right to lead the SNP to humiliation in the coming general election. To whoever ends up with the crown, might I humbly suggest they try to get through their victory speech without describing their opponents as the scum of the Earth.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/humza-yousafs-biggest-mistake/

Angela Rayner is ineligible.

TOPPING said:

What devolved powers do they have. The ability to set rates for public car parks at national monuments. Anything else? It is a mickey mouse government thinking they have powers to do this, that, and the other on the world stage but they have no such power hence are reduced to arguing the toss about trans rights and Gaza.

Like a student government that the grown ups indulge and laugh at.

You voted for Boris.

High pitched squeal: But Jezza made me do it!

Selebian said:

Dura_Ace said:

What, exactly, was HY's plan here when he wiped his hairy ringpiece on the Bute House agreement?

I presume the Greens will support the SNP as long as it led by anybody but HY or Sister Kate of the Immaculate Forehead? That would seem to be the logical move. To the limited extent that logic has any purchase over this fiasco.

I can only assume Yousaf has some great long-odds bets on his exit date, the date of the next Holyrood election and the next leader of the SNP.

Unless he's another Lib Dem sleeper agent

Or he's been tipped the wink by Police Scotland that Nicola is about to be arrested and charged and wants out ASAP?

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE THIS WHOLE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO SCOTLAND THING GO AWAY.

No one cares ffs.

I care deeply about Scotland.

I'm a Unionist.

Don't be absurd. Literally no one else cares. You and Big G that's it.

And you wonder why so many Scots want independence.

TOPPING said:

What devolved powers do they have. The ability to set rates for public car parks at national monuments. Anything else? It is a mickey mouse government thinking they have powers to do this, that, and the other on the world stage but they have no such power hence are reduced to arguing the toss about trans rights and Gaza.

Like a student government that the grown ups indulge and laugh at.

Of course it is. Have you seen the lecterns that the "MSPs" stand behind, as if they're giving lectures? But sometimes even a student Mickey Mouse local council politician can do something right, and HY has shown more guts on Gaza than almost any "grown-up" politician and he deserves credit for this.

Similarly with Leo Varadkar - more guts on Gaza than Starmer and Sunak put together times 100.

Theuniondivvie said:

I would be amazed if he ran for leader rather than took it on as temporary caretaker. The only motive for the former would be to take the hit for electoral defeat and leave a cleanish sheet for his successor, and I don't think even he's that selfless.

That's exactly the plan.

Oor 'Scotch expert' not fully up to speed there...

How gender wars can go badly:

The US - where debate is more polarised - is going in the opposite direction to the UK on gender identity ideology. UN expert @UNSRVAW says that redefining sex as gender identity in Title IX will increase the risk of male violence against women and girls....

It's a tragedy to see politicians on the left - in this case the Biden administration - collude in the erosion of women's protections against sex discrimination and single-sex spaces

https://x.com/soniasodha/status/1784929745450250251

Donkeys said:

TOPPING said:

What devolved powers do they have. The ability to set rates for public car parks at national monuments. Anything else? It is a mickey mouse government thinking they have powers to do this, that, and the other on the world stage but they have no such power hence are reduced to arguing the toss about trans rights and Gaza.

Like a student government that the grown ups indulge and laugh at.

Of course it is. Have you seen the lecterns that the "MSPs" stand behind, as if they're giving lectures? But sometimes even a student Mickey Mouse local council politician can do something right, and HY has shown more guts on Gaza than almost any "grown-up" politician and he deserves credit for this.

Similarly with Leo Varadkar - more guts on Gaza than Starmer and Sunak put together times 100.

Not sure it takes 'guts' to just do what those shouting the loudest want.

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE THIS WHOLE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO SCOTLAND THING GO AWAY.

No one cares ffs.

I care deeply about Scotland.

I'm a Unionist.

Don't be absurd. Literally no one else cares. You and Big G that's it.

And you wonder why so many Scots want independence.

And so many don't. The majority, even. They recognise that Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom. Would we be having this discussion if the leader of Hartlepool council suddenly stepped down.

Donkeys said:

TOPPING said:

What devolved powers do they have. The ability to set rates for public car parks at national monuments. Anything else? It is a mickey mouse government thinking they have powers to do this, that, and the other on the world stage but they have no such power hence are reduced to arguing the toss about trans rights and Gaza.

Like a student government that the grown ups indulge and laugh at.

Of course it is. Have you seen the lecterns that the "MSPs" stand behind, as if they're giving lectures? But sometimes even a student Mickey Mouse local council politician can do something right, and HY has shown more guts on Gaza than almost any "grown-up" politician and he deserves credit for this.

Similarly with Leo Varadkar - more guts on Gaza than Starmer and Sunak put together times 100.

Yes they are key decision-makers in the whole Gaza episode. Well done them. And Owen Jones don't forget his guts.

bondegezou said:

Alba currently have 2 MPs, 1 MSP and 2 councillors. No-one has ever been elected under the Alba label, however. They won nothing in the 2021 Scottish Parliamentary election and nothing in the 2022 local elections, despite both being under PR systems. They've won nothing in any by-elections. Does Salmond care or is this just about extracting revenge on the SNP?

A bit UKIP.

Casino_Royale said:

Malmesbury said:

Dura_Ace said:

Casino_Royale said:

I wonder actually if a PM like Tony Blair would be the most effective in stopping the boats.

Gets the issue (and in no way dismisses it or avoids hard truths in the British interest) and would be sufficiently internationalist to actually do the deals to fix it.

You're probably right. If you haven't got the fortitude for tow backs, which the tories clearly haven't, then the only person who can (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ STOP THE BOATS ♥ is Macron. Could Blair flatter and/or bribe Macron into doing it. Maybe.

The French President would probably agree to discuss it. Then, when an attempt to discuss it was made, accuse Blair of bad manners.

Macron would want Blair's help in tackling it at source- he has big problems in France with it.

Ultimately the EU is going to have to use force in the Med to repel all boarders.

The EU *is* using force in the Med. both directly - see accounts of behaviour by Italian and Greek coast guard - and indirectly.

The Libyans claim to have cleaned up their act, but….

"In contrast to the Scottish Greens, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats says he will continue to back a motion of no confidence against the Scottish government, if Scottish Labour pursue it.

Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live, Alex Cole-Hamilton says: "If Labour choose to press that confidence vote in the government, then we will continue to support it."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-68918348

Carnyx said:

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE THIS WHOLE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO SCOTLAND THING GO AWAY.

No one cares ffs.

I care deeply about Scotland.

I'm a Unionist.

Don't be absurd. Literally no one else cares. You and Big G that's it.

And you wonder why so many Scots want independence.

And so many don't. The majority, even. They recognise that Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom. Would we be having this discussion if the leader of Hartlepool council suddenly stepped down.

Not a majority. A minority, as with the Yessers. Which lot is bigger varies from week to week.

A majority as of the only time anyone has been asked in the past 20 years so I'll go with a majority.

The rest is conjecture.

@elrick1

Pretty obvious that to avoid a rammy this side of a General election (avoiding the tartan on tartan collateral of the last leadership election & at least give a semblance of unity -the nats will fall into line behind a John Swinney leadership - 20 years after he was last leader.

TOPPING said:

Carnyx said:

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE THIS WHOLE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO SCOTLAND THING GO AWAY.

No one cares ffs.

I care deeply about Scotland.

I'm a Unionist.

Don't be absurd. Literally no one else cares. You and Big G that's it.

And you wonder why so many Scots want independence.

And so many don't. The majority, even. They recognise that Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom. Would we be having this discussion if the leader of Hartlepool council suddenly stepped down.

Not a majority. A minority, as with the Yessers. Which lot is bigger varies from week to week.

A majority as of the only time anyone has been asked in the past 20 years so I'll go with a majority.

The rest is conjecture.

You’re doing a grand job on the no one cares front.

CarlottaVance said:

An election in Scotland is a democratic necessity.

Don’t take my word for it. [VIDEO of Sturgeon calling for general election on Truss departure]

https://x.com/scotfax/status/1784936368495349980

Sorry but where was the election when Useless took over from “the money was merely resting in this camper van”

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE THIS WHOLE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO SCOTLAND THING GO AWAY.

No one cares ffs.

I care deeply about Scotland.

I'm a Unionist.

Don't be absurd. Literally no one else cares. You and Big G that's it.

You're saying the inhabitants of Scotland are "literally nobody" ?
Interesting take.

CarlottaVance said:

An election in Scotland is a democratic necessity.

Don’t take my word for it. [VIDEO of Sturgeon calling for general election on Truss departure]

https://x.com/scotfax/status/1784936368495349980

We'd have been better with a GE on Truss arrival.

It's quite interesting seeing fairly centrist Irish commentators coming to the realisation that they need something like the Rwanda scheme too.

Cookie said:

ajb said:

gettingbetter said:

Pulpstar said:

Finally gone over to the ubiquitous Smartmeter. Gas all online with 1/2 hour granular detail available. Electricity 4-6 weeks to come online though ?!

What sort of archaic systems are in the back end of our grid for it to take that long ?

Thanks so much for mentioning this. I have been trying to get one for 4 years, last year they said it was now possible in our area but there are never any appointments. On reading your post I just looked and there was an appointment for Thursday (presumably a cancellation).
.

Good luck. When mine were installed, they caused a gas leak.

I've been trying to get one for a year. The one time I have got an engineer to turn up, she told me she couldn't get to either gas or electric meter. I'm not bothered about the gas meter - I'm only doing it so I can export my solar - but I'm trying again with the electric - I've arranged an electrician to turn up at the same time to move the consumer unit so she can get to it. Seems a right bloody palaver for something which they apparently want us to do.

Technician. Not engineer.

Nigelb said:

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE THIS WHOLE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO SCOTLAND THING GO AWAY.

No one cares ffs.

I care deeply about Scotland.

I'm a Unionist.

Don't be absurd. Literally no one else cares. You and Big G that's it.

You're saying the inhabitants of Scotland are "literally nobody" ?
Interesting take.

I am saying that no one cares what the "government" of Scotland does or doesn't do for the most part it seems to consist of making downtown Edinburgh a Gaza Sympathy Zone.

Nigelb said:

The FT article itself is paywalled, but if Tim Harford is representative of their columnists, then it's not worth paying for.

I've studied the history of solar energy and it never once occured to me that people might think that the technology would get cheaper with time by itself without mass production. What a bizarre belief
https://twitter.com/MaxJerneck/status/1784594856104399167

Wasn't that essentially the position of Bjorn Lomborg and others, that we shouldn't have spent anything on renewable energy at the time (20 ish years ago), but waited until they were cheaper? The implicit assumption being that the technology would become magically cheaper without any investment in it.

Stuartinromford said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

Scott_xP said:

...

SHUT IT!

We're The Swinney and we haven't had our tea.

Guv! Guv! Guv!

Coronation incoming:

Understand one potential frontrunner Neil Gray is telling colleagues he wants John Swinney to stand as leader of the SNP and that's his first choice to replace Humza Yousaf.

https://x.com/conor_matchett/status/1784941313663664360

TOPPING said:

Nigelb said:

TOPPING said:

Casino_Royale said:

TOPPING said:

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE MAKE THIS WHOLE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO SCOTLAND THING GO AWAY.

No one cares ffs.

I care deeply about Scotland.

I'm a Unionist.

Don't be absurd. Literally no one else cares. You and Big G that's it.

You're saying the inhabitants of Scotland are "literally nobody" ?
Interesting take.

I am saying that no one cares what the "government" of Scotland does or doesn't do for the most part it seems to consist of making downtown Edinburgh a Gaza Sympathy Zone.

However "pro-Israel" one might be, I don't think that precludes sympathy for the people of Gaza. At least I hope it doesn't.